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Posted: 8/1/2021 2:13:02 PM EDT
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American Psycho
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Posted: 8/1/2021 3:35:19 PM EDT
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Lorna Doone
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Posted: 8/1/2021 4:56:13 PM EDT
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Quoted: Ok so I like when a author can describe a setting really well. The more details the better. Anyone have any suggestions? I have read all the Jack Reacher series, I thought the first 6 or so were much more descriptive that the later stuff, it almost moves too fast now. What says the hive? Zane Grey. Takes him 7 pages to describe the opening scene. |
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Posted: 8/1/2021 4:57:30 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: Zane Grey. Takes him 7 pages to describe the opening scene. Any book of his in particular? |
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Posted: 8/1/2021 5:20:55 PM EDT
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A Jack Reacher book was the only one which gave me a nearly unresistible urge to throw it across the room as a key element to the story was so fu**ing stupid.
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Posted: 8/1/2021 9:04:53 PM EDT
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Jack Carr is almost unnecessarily descriptive in his gear/brand shoutouts .
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Posted: 8/2/2021 10:15:10 AM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: Jack Carr is almost unnecessarily descriptive in his gear/brand shoutouts . I agree, seemed like that was just flogging companies more than anything. Probably annoying for readers that aren't into guns. |
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Posted: 8/25/2021 9:56:00 PM EDT
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Elizabeth George.
Jeeez-o-flip she goes on and on and on about the setting. I never skim. But I was skimming. But if you like that, her mysteries are good. (Beware. She betrays the reader at one point, in a way that many have never forgiven. But you might not care. I'm not gonna tell. Just....lot of us don't trust her nor buy her anymore because of this. Furthermore, she broke the world rules of mystery, IMO, in one story, which is unforgivable.) Nevertheless. Her mysteries are very good. |
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Posted: 3/9/2022 12:08:41 AM EDT
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It’s been a few years since I read The Perfect Storm by Sebastian Junger, but I remember lots of exposition and detail about what was happening, even the science behind much of it. Based on a true story, of course.
ETA: corrected the title |
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Posted: 3/14/2022 5:42:02 PM EDT
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Quoted: Ok so I like when a author can describe a setting really well. The more details the better. Anyone have any suggestions? I have read all the Jack Reacher series, I thought the first 6 or so were much more descriptive that the later stuff, it almost moves too fast now. What says the hive? I am listening to Andrew Klavan's "Another Kingdom" and finding that he spends quite a bit of time on setting. A little too much for me, but not overwhelmingly so. It's fantasy though, so don't know if you want that. |
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Posted: 3/15/2022 8:22:09 PM EDT
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Try “A Lady's Life in the Rocky Mountains” by Isabella Bird if you’d like something different. It’s the story of a young Englishwoman who travels the American west mostly alone in the 1870s. The book is comprised of her letters to her family describing her journey. Her writing is incredibly descriptive.
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Posted: 3/17/2022 9:16:18 PM EDT
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Blood Meridian, Cormac Mc Carthy
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Posted: 3/24/2022 12:19:40 AM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: Blood Meridian, Cormac Mc Carthy This. Or really anything by McCarthy. |
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Posted: 3/24/2022 12:27:27 AM EDT
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Anne Rice
The Sleeping Beauty Quartet The Sleeping Beauty Quartet is a series of four novels written by American author Anne Rice under the pseudonym of A. N. Roquelaure. The quartet comprises The Claiming of Sleeping Beauty, Beauty's Punishment, Beauty's Release, and Beauty's Kingdom, first published individually in 1983, 1984, 1985, and 2015, respectively, in the United States. They are erotic BDSM novels set in a medieval fantasy world, loosely based on the fairy tale of Sleeping Beauty Pretty descriptive i was loaned the set back when i was blowing through all her books. Another RN asked me if i read them Said i never hearx of them Next night she bright them in without telling what they are. They make that 50 shades trash look like Dr Seuss. You've been warned. |
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Posted: 4/17/2022 5:48:31 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: This. Or really anything by McCarthy. Quote HistoryQuoted: Quoted: Blood Meridian, Cormac Mc Carthy This. Or really anything by McCarthy. |
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Posted: 4/19/2022 1:08:57 PM EDT
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Pandora's Star by Hamilton, and the Void series.
Love the books, too descriptive for me but sounds like you'll like it if you dig SF. |
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Posted: 5/21/2022 4:37:08 PM EDT
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American Wasteland by Nick Cole
It might be my favorite book-books of all time. |
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Posted: 5/22/2022 9:18:10 AM EDT
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Pillars of the Earth
by Ken Follet |
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Posted: 5/22/2022 10:11:06 AM EDT
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Neal Stephenson
Anathem The three-body problem |
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Posted: 5/22/2022 11:19:34 AM EDT
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I just finished running through the Outlander series. Diana Gabaldon is very descriptive and slips in archaic words that either make you think about their use within the context, or make you look them up outright. I really liked her presentation of 18th century life.
The books in this series are long. Each novel in the series seemed to be longer than the previous one. These are not romance novels, but you do have to be able to put up with a few bodice ripper scenes. And like most recurring characters, such as Jack Reacher or Jack Ryan, the author sometimes makes a main character do something obviously stupid in order to create a plot situation. I've learned to look past those devices and enjoy the rest of the story. |
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Posted: 6/9/2022 11:59:48 PM EDT
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marcel prousts - in search of lost time
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